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RE: (erielack) Re: Youngstown
Folks,
For those interested, Rick Rowlands also runs a group dedicated to
preserving some of the industrial history of the Mahoning Valley. The site
for his group is http://www.todengine.org/index.html do check them out and
support him if you can. I have no affiliation with the group. I do believe
one of his possible future projects is a Brier Hill Works CD-rom with steel
mill diagrams, maps, track diagrams, furnace and other mill building
drawings. I am not certain on that so if interested you may wish to contact
him directly through his site and find out more.
Steve
(not of the Timko variety)
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> Subject: Fwd: (erielack) Re: Youngstown
>
>
> I referred the posting about the Jeanette Blast Furnace to local
> rail/steel
> historian, Rick Rowlands in Youngstown.
>
> Here is his response:
>
>
>
>
> Steve,
>
> Pass this on to the EL List. As you can tell the whole "Jenny"
> thing is a
> bit of a sore subject for me.
>
> Rick
>
> Good Grief! Some idiot rock star has managed to rewrite 80 years of
> history. There never was a blast furnace named "Jenny". Not
> here in the Mahoning
> Valley at least. This fiction has been perpetuated by John
> Russo, a so called
> PROFESSOR at Youngstown State University who is riding on Springsteen's
> coattails by in essence rewriting history by referring to
> Jeannette as Jenny in
> his factually inadequate "Steeltown" book.
>
> I have studied this blast furnace plant for years. I have
> most of the
> original engineering drawings for this blast furnace and nowhere
> and at any
> time has Jeannette ever been referred to as Jenny.
>
> Here is the real story:
>
> On Sept. 20, 1918 the Jeannette blast furnace was blown in at the
> Brier Hill
> Steel Company in Youngstown. The furnace was named after the 4 year old
> daughter of company president W.A. Thomas, her name was Mary
> Jeannette. In 1923
> this company became the Brier Hill Works of Youngstown Sheet and
> Tube. The
> plant was served by the Erie whose Brier Hill yard was adjacent to the
> property. The PY&A, B&O and LE&E also served the plant.
> Jeannette was blown out
> sometime in the late 1970s, possibly September, 1977 but I don't
> have data to
> confirm that. That date comes from a calendar I found hanging in
> the Jeannette
> stockhouse.
>
> Jeannette was a minor producer in the Youngstown district. Its
> shutdown did
> not cause the massive amounts of job loss. The major plant
> closings at the
> YS&T Campbell Works, US Steel Ohio Works and Brier Hill Works
> steel making
> department is where the massive job losses came from.
>
> Rick Rowlands
> Youngstown, Ohio
>
>
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> From: Todd Hollritt <thollritt_@_yahoo.com>
> Subject: (erielack) Re: Youngstown
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> Todd,
>
> I think the reference in the song to "Jenny" has to do with the last
> blast furnace torn down in Youngstown. It was named after the
> daughter of a
> steel company official, whose name was Jenny. There are no
> longer ANY blast furnaces in Youngstown. Good news - the air in
> Youngstown is 25% cleaner. That doesn't make me feel much better.
>
> Rick Fleischer
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Rick (and list)
> I did a little research and you are correct, Bruce "Is"
> singing to the Jeannette blast furnace! This expert is from the
> book "Steeltown U.S.A" Work and Memory in Youngstown.
> ****************************
> When "the Jenny" was shut down in 1978, 50,000 Youngstown
> workers lost their jobs, cutting the heart out of the local
> economy. Even as the community organized a nationally recognized
> effort to save the mills, the city was rocked by economic
> devastation, runaway crime, and mob scandal, problems that
> persist twenty-five years later. In the midst of these struggles
> "the Jenny" remained standing as a proud symbol of the
> community's glory days, still a dominant force in the
> construction of both individual and collective identities in Youngstown.
> *******************************
>
> I found no information on what railroads served "The Jenny".
>
> Todd ~
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